Hi marketing_ideas,
For a list of hyphenated words I consistently found throughout my
research reference to The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide
for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (14th Edition)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226103897/ref=cm_bg_f_2/103-9004013-1679814?v=glance
There is no list online for download... however, I have located
information that I'm confident will be helpful to you in determining
the most common use of the hyphen... which as the Oxford University
Press style manual states:
"If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad."
As a general rule: When in doubt, consult your style manual and/or dictionary!
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When Are Compound Words Spelled with Hyphens? - How Do You Know When to Use One?
http://englishplus.com/news/news0699.htm
Some compound words are almost always written as separate words. I
think of words like dump truck or Christmas tree. Other words are
recognized as single words. I think of words like bookkeeper or
foghorn. Then there a number of words which are hyphenated. I think of
words like mother-in-law or merry-go-round. How do we know when to
hyphenate such compound words?
Some Basic Patterns
First of all, right off the top I must say that English is not
completely consistent. The best solution is to look up the word in a
good dictionary. If there is more than one spelling listed, you almost
always do best to choose the first one. For example, many dictionaries
list two spelling for bumblebee (bumble-bee). Bumblebee is listed
first because it is the most widely used. Choose the second choice
only if your audience uses it; for example, you may use it if it is a
common regional variation and you are writing for the region that uses
it.
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An explanation of when to use a hyphen can be found at The American
Heritage® Book of English Usage. A Practical and Authoritative Guide
to Contemporary English. 1996.
http://www.bartleby.com/64/84.html
Word Formation
Word Compounding
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The Great Hyphenation Hoax
http://telp.com/editing/hyphen.htm
"Hyphenation of compounds is one of the things that makes even the
mildest editors growl and spit. A laid-back approach says simply to
follow a good dictionary, and otherwise leave all compounds open
unless confusion would result. This leads to fewer hyphens than
tradition seems to encourage, but it is (I think) eminently sensible.
Most academic publications are edited according to The Chicago Manual
of Style, which, when it comes to hyphens, has left the simple and
sensible far behind and given us page upon page of detailed rules and
particulars, some of which are contradictory.
I want to discuss one particular aspect of Chicago's hyphenation
advice, which seems questionable at the outset and is so often abused
in practice that I think it needs a good thrashing. This is the notion
that a compound adjective should be hyphenated when it immediately
precedes a noun, and left open when it follows the noun, for example
in the predicate.
Chicago's example is fast sailing ship, which is ambiguous because it
might mean a sailing ship that is fast or a ship that is sailing fast.
Hence, to resolve the ambiguity, you hyphenate fast-sailing if you
mean to say it is a ship that is sailing fast. But the hyphen is not
necessary except when the phrase immediately precedes ship, because
the phrase is not ambiguous elsewhere.
All this is fine, and I have no objection. However, the example has
been so overgeneralized as to make me cringe. In particular, many
editors who work with Chicago blithely ignore..."
Hyphens cause writers more trouble than any other form of punctuation,
except perhaps commas. This may be because the hyphen has no analogue
in speech; it is punctuation created purely by the needs of print."
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When Are Compound Words Spelled with Hyphens?
http://englishplus.com/news/news0699.htm
When Are Compound Words Spelled with Hyphens? How Do You Know When to Use One?
"Some compound words are almost always written as separate words. I
think of words like dump truck or Christmas tree. Other words are
recognized as single words. I think of words like bookkeeper or
foghorn. Then there a number of words which are hyphenated. I think of
words like mother-in-law or merry-go-round. How do we know when to
hyphenate such compound words?
Some Basic Patterns
First of all, right off the top I must say that English is not
completely consistent. The best solution is to look up the word in a
good dictionary. If there is more than one spelling listed, you almost
always do best to choose the first one. For example, many dictionaries
list two spelling for bumblebee (bumble-bee). Bumblebee is listed
first because it is the most widely used. Choose..."
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New York University - Is It One Word? Two Words? Hyphenated?
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/one_word_two_words.html
"One of the stickier problems copy editors worry about is whether a
two-word phrase is two separate words, hyphenated, or combined to
become "oneword." Concepts may start out as two words -- common sense,
for example -- become hyphenated as adjectives, and then eventually
become one word -- commonsense -- as the usage becomes more
commonplace.
The following charts show a random selection..."
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Hyphenated Compounds: Part I by Tina Blue January 15, 2001
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/hyphens1.html
Hyphenated Compounds: Part II
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/hyphens2.html
Hyphenated Compounds: Part III
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/hyphens3.html
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Compounds
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.Compounds.html
"Q. What style do you recommend for the words health care, two words
or one? If two words are preferred, do you hyphenate it when it
appears as an adjective, as in health-care company? Thanks.
A. For the answers to questions about word definitions and spellings,
we recommend that you use a dictionary. (Webster?s Collegiate
Dictionary, eleventh edition, is a favorite of ours.) Since health
care is now listed as two words in Webster?s, we would follow suit.
Webster?s also notes that the compound is usu[ually] hyphenated when
used attributively."
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University of Houston - Editorial Style Guide
http://www.advancement.uh.edu/editorialstyle/pages/h.html
"hyphens - there are two acceptable uses of hyphens:
1. Hyphenation means to break words at the ends of lines of copy.
Limit hyphenation as much as possible. If you must use it, follow the
guidelines below.
Don?t break a hyphenated compound in the middle of either of its
component words. If the compound must be broken, break it after the
hyphen.
Avoid line breaks that leave only one or two letters at the beginning
or end of a line.
Avoid having more than two lines in a row end in hyphens.
Avoid breaking personal names, proper nouns, phone or fax numbers,
e-mail or Web addresses, and elements of street and mailing addresses.
If you must break a Web or e-mail address, break it before a
punctuation mark.
2. In hyphenated compounds, such as on-screen. The following are some
general guidelines for the use of hyphens in compounds. When in doubt,
consult the dictionary.
Don?t use a hyphen after words ending in ly.
Compounds with the word century are hyphenated when they work as
modifiers: Ninth-century art, eleventh-century religion
Hyphens..."
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The Chicago Manual of Style - Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/cmosfaq.HyphensEnDashesEmDashes.html
Q. Are there compounds that are always hyphenated, such as up-to-date
or step-by-step, or are these only hyphenated when modifying another
word, as in up-to-date rules or step-by-step procedures? My company is
writing We?ll walk you through it step by step, and I thought that it
should be We?ll walk you through it step-by-step.
A. We prefer to keep such commonplace or even clichéd phrases, some of
which are listed in hyphenated form in standard dictionaries, open
when they appear after the noun they modify or when they are used
adverbially:
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Prefixes
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:h5LaMsozJ-UJ:www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/Hyphens.html+most+common+prefix+hyphens&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"Usage differs depending on publication style. Chicago Manual of Style
spells most compounds with the common prefixes solid (pre-, post-,
over-, under-, pro-, anti-, re-, un-, non-, semi-, co-, pseud-,
intra-, extra-, infra-, ultra-, sub-, super-, supra-). AP Style Manual
is more choosy: pro- and co- are hyphenated when certain meanings are
intended; anti- and non- are usually hyphenated, with some exceptions
noted; post-, pre-, and over- follow the dictionary in general; and
under-, un-, re-, semi-, intra-, extra-, ultra-, sub-, super-, and
supra- are usually spelled solid. Both style books require hyphenation
when the root word is a proper name or figures (anti-Semitic,
pre-1989) and to distinguish homonyms (re-creation or recreation,
un-ionized or unionized). In addition, AP requires a hyphen when the
root word begins with the same vowel that the prefix ends in, with
very few exceptions (re-election for AP, reelection for Chicago;
pro-abortion for AP, proabortion for Chicago).
Words that are already hyphenated are joined to a prefix with a
hyphen: un-self-conscious.
When in doubt, consult your style manual and/or dictionary."
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Hyphens
http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=738537
"Use hyphens for
1. FRACTIONS (whether nouns or adjectives): two-thirds, four-fifths,
one-sixth, etc.
2. MOST WORDS THAT BEGIN with anti, non and neo. Thus anti-aircraft,
anti-fascist, anti-submarine (but antibiotic, anticlimax, antidote,
antiseptic, antitrust); non-combatant, non-existent, non-payment,
non-violent (but nonaligned, nonconformist, nonplussed, nonstop);
neo-conservative, neo-liberal (but neoclassicism, neolithic,
neologism).
Words beginning Euro should also be hyphenated, except Europhile,
Europhobe and Eurosceptic; euro zone and euro area.
Some words that become unmanageably long with the addition of a
prefix. Thus under-secretary and inter-governmental.
Antidisestablishmentarianism would, however, lose its point if it were
hyphenated.
A sum followed by the word worth also needs a hyphen. Thus $25m-worth of goods.
3. SOME TITLES
vice-president..."
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Google search:
common hyphenated word list
hyphens
hyphenated words
style guide hyphenation
compound words hyphenated
Best regards,
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